1.   In accordance with Jewish tradition calling for swift burials, nine funerals were held for wedding-hall victims, including a three-year-old boy.

2.   Sending the dead home is most common among non-Islamic Africans since Islamic tradition requires swift burial, Uduehi says.

3.   The American way of death is to downplay mortality with swift burials and closed caskets that encourage the living to get on with things.

4.   Across the Balkans, swift burial is traditional, usually a day after death.

5.   Across the Balkans, a swift burial is traditional, usually a day after death.

6.   Muslim tradition calls for swift burial, but the family agreed to a delay so that Palestinian officials could turn the body over to Israel for an autopsy.

7.   Muslim tradition calls for swift burial, but the family agreed to a delay so that Palestinian officials could turn the body over to Israel for autopsy.

8.   Relatives charged that the Serbs wanted to cover up atrocities with swift burials.

9.   The funeral was to be held Monday, in keeping with the Islamic tradition of swift burial, said a Cabinet minister, speaking on condition of anonymity.

10.   The funeral was to be held Monday, in keeping with the Islamic tradition of swift burial.